The reason why Xia Yuanji approved the application of the Ministry of Rites so happily is actually only one reason.

The scale of this imperial examination is far greater than before, and it can be said to be the largest imperial examination so far in the Yongle Dynasty, because the implementation of the new tax system has caused many people to lose their black yarns, or even lose their lives.

However, this is not the reason why Xia Yuanji cares about this matter, the reason why he is so concerned is mainly due to a letter of invitation three days ago.

Yunnan Wu Wangfu sent a petition, saying that Yunnan is carrying out reforms, and most of the Tusi in Yunnan have been removed, and now it is a time of shortage of people, so it is specially requested that the imperial court send officials to fill the vacancy in Yunnan.

The scale of this imperial examination was already very large, and it caught up with the need for people in Yunnan, so Xia Yuanji was naturally very concerned.

Don't look at the current Zhu Zhan Yan is no longer in the Wa Kingdom, but the influence of this person has not disappeared, and he will still bring at least 20% of the tax income to the Ming Dynasty every year.

Iwami Ginzan is a sustainable and long-term treasure mountain.

Imperial Palace, Qianqing Palace.

Xia Yuanji sat on the chair given by Zhu Di and looked at the fold in front of him.

This is not the letter that asked the imperial court to send officials to Yunnan, but another one, but it was also presented from Yunnan, but it was not read out at the early court.

There are only four big words in the first row of the folds: change the soil and return to the stream.

The explanation of the change of land and return to the stream is actually very simple, that is, to abolish the Tusi system of a few tribes in the southwestern provinces, and replace it with a policy of governing by officials sent by the imperial court.

Tu refers to toast, which does not need to be explained.

Liu, refers to the officials sent by the imperial court, because the idea is to let the officials from other places govern a small number of tribes, and change them regularly, so it is called Liuguan, that is, the word Liuguan for changing the land and returning to the stream.

This is Zhu Zhan's way to solve the fundamental problems of Yunnan, because when the Mu family took over the governance of Yunnan, they chose the fastest way, that is, to ensure the interests of Tusi and make Tusi obedient.

This led to the fact that although Yunnan belonged to the Ming Dynasty and accepted the rule of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the fundamental system did not change.

"What do you think?" Zhu Di gently knocked on the armrest of the dragon chair and looked at Xia Yuanji in front of him.

Yao Guangxiao lives in the Heavenly Realm Temple, and he will hardly interfere in matters other than the Monk Lu Division, and Jin Zhong died of illness in April this year, which makes Zhu Di have no one who can talk about things in private.

However, there will always be some things that cannot be talked about on the surface, which leads to the necessity of having someone who can talk about these things with Zhu Di.

After Yao Guangxiao lived in the Heavenly Realm Temple, Jin Zhong died of illness, and Wenyuan Pavilion had such a big ill, Zhu Di subconsciously chose Xia Yuanji.

It's just that he didn't notice what prompted him to choose this candidate.

Emperor Yongle was still swayed by emotion after all, and it was not the first time.

"For the public, this is a good thing." Xia Yuanji pondered for a long time before speaking.

"His Royal Highness the Prince is right, there are lessons from Annan, if the Tusi system in Yunnan is not abolished, sooner or later one day it will follow in the footsteps of Annan, which is not good for me."

"Previously, His Royal Highness proposed a new tax system, and Yunnan was the first to implement it."

"Like my Ming gentry, Tusi is also one of the few victims in the implementation of the new tax system, and the Tusi system is very harmful, so His Royal Highness the Prince of the World took this opportunity to solve it in one fell swoop."

Speaking of this, Xia Yuanji stopped.

He's just a courtier, he can't say much, and when he talks about it, it's already the limit, and if he says anything else, it's overstepping.

In fact, even if he just said this, Xia Yuanji still overstepped it, because his words were full of favoritism towards Zhu Zhanyan, basically every sentence was to explain the advantages of Zhu Zhanyan doing this, but he never mentioned the shortcomings.

For example, handling too much toast at once can lead to a riot.

For example, too many vacancies at one time will lead to a shortage of Ming officials.

For example, after the reform of Yunnan, I am afraid that the imperial court will not be able to be the master.

People are emotional, and there is no exception, and having emotions means that the person is not absolutely just.

Just like a history book, the history of the flower planter has always been the history book of the previous dynasty when the dynasty revised it, and in this situation where the person who revised the history book overthrew the rule of the previous dynasty, injustice is an inevitable problem.

As for what the truth of history is, even if it is only known to those who have witnessed it.

"So, in your opinion, is it possible?" Zhu Di was silent for a long time before he spoke.

"Your Majesty!" Natsuhara stood up, lowered his head, and arched his hands.

"The new system will inevitably be accompanied by labor pains, but this is equivalent to scraping bones to cure poison, and the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!"

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Siam, Bottom Marthas.

Unlike before, who always followed the army on the front line, this time Zhu Zhan Yan was far behind the army, because the protagonist of this Siam destruction was destined not to be him.

"How many are there?" Zhu Zhanyan casually asked Hu Sui and Jin Ya beside him.

Hu Sui had been idle for several years since he was transferred to Yunnan, because at that time he was catching up with Zhu Zhan's expedition to the Japanese kingdom and had no time to deal with him.

Later, with the arrival of Jin Ya, Zhu Zhanyan remembered that there was such a person as Hu Sui, so they went to Annan to assist the household officials to register those displaced people.

Later, Jin Zhong died of illness, and Jin Ya returned to Beijing for funeral, and only returned to Annan not long ago.

"Your Royal Highness Hui Shizi, in terms of the number of people currently registered, there are already 76,712 boys and 31,102 women."

Hu Sui's memory is very good, or maybe he is more attentive to things, and he remembers the data very clearly in the matter he is responsible for.

"What about trends?" Zhu Zhanyan frowned.

He was a little unhappy with this data.

"The trend is good." Hu Sui flipped through the ledger-like thing in his hand.

"At the beginning, when we were in the Eight Hundred Dadian Division, many people were afraid of our Ming army, which should have been brought by His Highness, so there were not many Siamese people who were willing to obey our dispatch at that time."

"But then the situation got better and better, after all, from the Eight Hundred Dadian Division to the Massas, we did not target the people, only those who entered the Siamese army to fight against our Ming Dynasty will lose their lives."

"In the beginning, there were only more than 100 people in a county willing to sign up, but now, as far as Massas is concerned, about 30% of homeless women and boys can participate in the registration."

"That's pretty good." Hearing this, Zhu Zhanyan's brows finally relaxed.

"I have already sent someone to send a message back, and the follow-up supplies will follow, treat these women and children who have signed up well, and take it as a benchmark."

"Okay." Hearing this, Hu Sui took out his pen and licked it, and with his saliva, he infected the residual ink on the tip of the pen and wrote it on the roster in his hand.

"Jin Ya, what about you?" Zhu Zhanyan turned his head to look at Jin Ya on the left.

For Jin Ya, Zhu Zhanyan really wants to cultivate and cultivate well, because Jin Ya's experience is indeed quite sympathetic.

was originally a very ordinary person, but suddenly became the stepson of the secretary of the Ming Dynasty Military Department and the second hero of Jingnan, and he can inherit Jin Zhong's family business in the future, which is no less than one step to the sky.

But unfortunately, this is a very short dream, and the most cruel thing is that until the last moment when this dream becomes a reality, the dream is shattered.

Jin Zhong's side house gave birth to a child for him three months before he died, and he was still a son.

The realization of this dream is just around the corner, but the feeling of ruthless breakage can really drive many people crazy, especially this dream of ascending to the sky.

However, Jin Ya's reaction was okay and relatively calm.

"His Royal Highness, Jin Ya has a reluctant request." Jin Ya paused, pondered for a while, and finally decided to speak.

"If you have something to say, say it." Zhu Zhan's words were concise and to the point.

Even if he wants to cultivate, he doesn't plan to devote himself wholeheartedly, and he never puts too much effort into people he doesn't trust enough.

The cultivation of Jin Ya is already his emotional thing, in order to repay Jin Zhong for standing up when Chen Ge, Hu Guang and others impeached him.

"His Royal Highness, Jin Ya wants to go to the Wa Kingdom."

Jin Ya's words were amazing, not only did Zhu Zhanyan not expect it, but even Hu Sui's movements paused.

In today's Ming Dynasty, few people will mention the word "Waguo", not because they don't understand it.

On the contrary, it is because they know so much that people avoid it.

The Ming Dynasty now has nearly 200,000 troops stationed in the Wa Kingdom, and the consumption of these 200,000 troops is an astronomical amount for ordinary people, plus an excessively long supply line, so even for the imperial court, this is a big expenditure.

In contrast, the Iwami Silver Mountain, which can produce a million taels of silver every year, seems to be less important.

However, in fact, the consumption of these 200,000 troops is not much.

Mining is used by the young men of the Wa Kingdom, these people are the pillars of their families, and if Iwami Ginzan and Sado Gold Mountain are combined, they will consume tens of thousands of miners every year, and at most they can reach 100,000 miners.

Sounds like a lot, but it's actually quite normal.

First of all, the excessively long supply line was a lot of pressure on the Ming army, so it would become more anxious about the opening of mines.

Secondly, it was not the people of the Ming Dynasty who were used in the matter of mining, which made the Ming army not feel distressed.

Finally, mining is inherently a very dangerous thing, and the addition of the first two increases the danger exponentially.

However, this creates a closed loop.

Everyone has an inferior root, and the group of Japanese people embodies this vividly.

When young people go to the mine to open a mine, many people will not come back every year, and the family without a pillar will only be left with orphans and widows, at most two old people.

Such families are the easiest to bully.

However, it is not the shogunate and the emperor who are now in charge of the Wa Kingdom, but the Ming army, and in order to be able to mine mines for a longer time, the Ming army will definitely try to minimize the chaos that occurred in the Wa Kingdom.

Therefore, whenever this kind of thing happens, the Ming army will intervene, and the final result is often only one.

First, the Ming army arrived in time, and the matter was well resolved, and those who wanted to deceive the orphans and widows of others would be forcibly escorted to serve in forced labor, that is, to open mines.

And their family's property will also be confiscated and used as a supply for the Ming army.

Second, the Ming army came late, and the orphans and widows who were deceived either left their homes or disappeared into this world, then the Ming army would also punish those who started it.

In the end, the results refer to the first article.

Therefore, the current Wa Kingdom is a hell on earth for the people of the Ming Dynasty, basically equivalent to the Zhao Song Dynasty who was attacked by the Jin people and the Han people who were ruled by the Mengyuan people.

Jin Ya wanted to go to this kind of place, not only Hu Sui was shocked, but even Zhu Zhanyan didn't expect it.

He really wants to train Jin Ya, and it is best to train him to be an excellent general, but the Wa State ......

Not a great place.

Zhu Zhanyan can rise in the Ming Dynasty with the name of killing gods, which does not mean that others can too, because most of these others lack a very important thing.

Identity, the identity of the royal family.

"Want to go to war?" Zhu Zhanyan laughed, because he understood Jin Ya's thoughts.

"Don't dare to deceive His Royal Highness." Jin Ya lowered his head and did not deny it.

"That's a good thing." Zhu Zhanyan nodded, but the answer made Jin Ya very disappointed.

"But it's not good for the Wa Kingdom, it's not suitable for you, not to mention that you, a person with little experience, even Liu Sheng and others were withdrawn by the imperial court."

"The Wa country is fishing in the dry water, so there will be some radical methods, and you don't have to accept this form of exercise."

"But you don't have to worry, there will be a chance, now you can learn from Second Uncle Mu, at least you need to know what a military general needs to do in addition to commanding the battle."

"Obey the orders of His Royal Highness." Jin Ya was a little disappointed, but he still accepted Zhu Zhanyan's arrangement quite obediently.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanyan just smiled and didn't say anything.

His plan had already been rolled out, and the caravan of Li Chengliang and others had returned to Yunnan a month earlier, selling all the potato seeds they had taken last time to the Delhi Sultanate at a high price.

That's right, it's the countries.

Although the Sultans of Delhi are the name of the white elephants of later generations, in fact, they are no longer a form of centralized rule, but a form similar to that of the Wa Kingdom.

Originally, the internal strife was very serious, coupled with the characteristics of high yield, the caravan of Li Chengliang and others brought potatoes to the Delhi Sultan, but also brought bloody rain.

Even the caravan of Li Chengliang and others has been affected a lot, but compared to the high income, it is worth it.

Even if not all the money from selling potatoes is theirs, Zhu Zhanyan gave them enough.

Now, the caravan of Li Chengliang and others has set off with the second batch of potato seeds, and the destination is still Delhi Sultan.

Although the Shu Body Poison Path could reach the Mediterranean Sea, it was still too dangerous for a caravan, and the Delhi Sultan was close to the Timurid Empire, so it was enough to be able to bring potatoes to the Delhi Sultan.

For this kind of high-yield grain, the Timurid Empire will certainly not sit still, and when the time comes, something will definitely happen on the border between the Timurid Empire and the Delhi Sultan.

And the Timurid Empire is close to the Ottoman Empire, and there are still enemies with deep blood feuds between the two, so the Ottoman Empire will not sit idly by and ignore the Timurid Empire.

When the time comes, everything will fall into place.

Even if it can't, under the impetus of Zhu Zhanyan, it shouldn't be very difficult.

(End of chapter)